Thanks for the pointer! Unfortunately it doesn't look like a memory issue: /var/log/messages contains nothing about memory problems. And the Linux system has enough RAM for this computation.
Gang On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimi...@club.fr> wrote: > Le mardi 20 novembre 2012 à 12:54 -0500, Gang Chen a écrit : >> I wrote an R program that does heavy computations with hundreds of >> lines of code. It's running fine both interactively and in batch mode >> on a Mac OS X computer. The program also has no problem running on a >> Linux system (Fedora 14) interactively. However, when I try it on the >> terminal in batch mode on the Linux system, it chokes in the middle of >> the computation with the "Execution halted" error message. >> >> I already put try or tryCatch in those places where computation may >> throw an error. And the warnings are set in default (options(warn=1)). >> I wish I could provide the code for help, but that seems impractical. >> How to debug this? > Have a look at your /var/log/messages: it might well be the > out-of-memory killer killing your R process because it eats too much > RAM... > > My two cents ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.